Anton Chekhov Quotes

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude

What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

Self-preservation is the first responsibility.

Lies are dangerous but sometimes necessary when a country is in danger.

Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies

Politicians have an acutely honed instinct for self-preservation.

When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.

Sometimes you need lies to stay alive.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.